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Last year at the IDTechEx RFID Europe event in Cambridge, there was a presentation about how postal services were tracking mail using RFID. Now, a recent page on EurActiv.com has updated what is happening in this area.

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It may not be fashionable to visit a library these days as much (if at all!) as some of us may have done in our childhoods. But if there are RFID applications around like this there, visiting the library could catch on again.

It's probably only a precursor for even wackier ideas to follow that will show RFID intersecting with everyone's lives in a fun, non-threatening way, all allied to the use of an RFID tag/chip that we'll probably come to take for granted as much as we now do the bar code.

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The RFID specialist, EPCglobal, which is a subsidiary of the GS1 standards group, has completed the second phase of a transportation and logistics pilot examining the use of EPC IS (EPC Information Services) middleware, increasing the prospect of improved data visibility between trading partners exchanging RFID-sourced data.

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A recent article in RFID Journal makes interesting reading about how RFID is now moving beyond trials and is being adopted within companies.

Pulling the results together of various pilots and trials and implementing RFID throughout the organisation requires a new approach and it means someone having to pull best practices and corporate policies together.

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The public focus on many RFID systems to date has been around large supply chain systems and compliance mandates for suppliers. But current thinking on RFID is now more towards the benefits of smaller 'closed-loop' systems that can serve as a basis for future, 'open' systems.

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A new survey by the Aberdeen Group has isolated the challenges for retailers of RFID and predicted that best of breed players in the sector are already overcoming those challenges.

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I'm at the Infosecurity Show in London today, and one of my main goals will be to find out more about RFID and security. There have been a series of news stories about supposed weaknesses in RFID. I'd like to get a first-hand look at what the real picture is.

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Much has been written about Marks & Spencer's success with its 'intelligent labelling' of clothes in its stores. Now over in the US, American Apparel is going down the same RFID route.

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